31 Jan 2011

This Wednesday, 2nd February 2011 at 20.00, a documentary The Cove will be screened on Slovenian TV channel SLO 1. The film talks about secretive and cruel activities that are taking place in Japan, involving the multi-billion-dollar industry of dolphin captivitiy and the industry of dolphin meat trade. Richard O'Barry, a former dolphin trainer, gathers an unusual team - experts in underwater and secret filming, marine researchers, former military experts, top divers - in order to break the barrier of silence and expose the horrible secret to the world.

In 2010 and 2011, Morigenos is participating in the promotion and the screening of the film in Slovenia, in collaboration with Demiurg and Kinodvor.

25 Jan 2011

The Oscar winning movie The Cove will be played in Kinodvor Cinema on 26th January 2011 at 10 am, as part of the "Movie meetings with coffee", organised in Kinodvor. Tilen Genov from Morigenos will be hosted as a guest in a talk after the movie.

A press conference of the project »Sea dates, no thanks!« was held on Wednesday, 19.1.2011 in Strunjan, attended also by Morigenos team. A new brochure about the project was published and the first year’s activities presented. Morigenos, as a partner, promoted the project during the 6th Dolphin Day in Piran. First results are very encouraging, as the information about the issue is spreading among people. The Slovenian crime police, in cooperation with fishery inspectors, customs management and veterinary inspection, carried out several seizures of sea dates and started several legal procedures against smugglers.

18 Jan 2011

This year we started fieldwork very early, with the first boat trips in the last few days. Despite the thick fog and bitter cold, we had some luck and encountered some of our known dolphin friends. One of them was Aaron (on the photo), a dolphin we first met in 2006.